"Johannes Nohl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Saying LTS I mean Long Term Support as ubuntu people do. > > I know there's SEL but I'm asking for the open Suse. I'm configuring a > new webserver right now. And I'm seriosly thinking about waiting for > the next ubuntu LTS. I always ran the machines longer than two years. > Often the contract duration for the dedicated hardware is two years > yet. And although upgrading worked so far for me there were always > small changes which you couldn't see in advance, like postfix > complaining about file permissions. > > I really enjoy OpenSuse but a life cycle of two years is - except for > desktops - to short. Not every release has to be supported long term > but what about every third? Couldn't the life cycle be 4.5 years?
Novell offers the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop products
which are basically LTS versions - but you need to pay for them.
On the other hand, with the build service it would be possible for
community members to support an openSUSE release for a longer term than
we're doing and create an own update channel.
Andreas
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